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Starting this thread to show the progress of this first, "all my own work layout" (well nearly all, got a friend to make the baseboards). It is located somewhere that is mainly GWR/WR with Southern and LMS visitors. I know it has a lot of track, that was one of the criteria as per my grandson's brief but with some careful scenic modelling I hope to make it look less so.

This is the final track plan, minor mods have been incorporate to improve operation and is a fully DCC Digitrax controlled layout using Railroad & Co's Train Controller PC software. It allows continuous running together with out & back operation with some stations having dual roles. The branch line station on the reversing loop is a cut down Bampton & Brize Norton station on the former East Gloucestershire Railway which was later taken over by the GWR This station is run to a 1950 timetable with Claywell being Oxford and High Hackton platform 7, doubling up as the terminus at Fairford. The roads are not that straight on the model, just easier to insert using XTrkCad.

It is designed to easily break down into sections for possible exhibition. The basic size is 2.70 mtr x 1.7 mtr. and for home use has additional detachable 12cm wide scenic sections clipped to 2 sides of the layout, these can be replaced for exhibition use with larger clip-on sections and possibly a fiddle yard to add more variety. To this end, 2 of the main terminus tracks are extended as through roads via a level crossing across one of the clip-on sections, as is a hidden part of the reversing loop.

Still lots of work to do, I've only painted & ballasted about half of the trackwork so far which is all Peco code 55 laid onto 4mm cork. Only just started some of the scenics, will slowly add pictures as work progress.

It's thanks to this, other groups and the internet that I've been able to do this, as other than doing some of the scenic modelling on my dad's and brother's layouts, many, many years ago, a lot of it is very new to me, especially DCC control, of which I knew absolutely nothing when I started this a couple of 2 years ago.

Postscript - just noticed that the Fairford Branch website http://www.fairfordbranch.co.uk has added a new working timetable to the site (my branch line worked to the passenger timetable) so I will have construct a new schedule to include more operations)

That is something special, Caz. Have to say your pointwork and ballasting are great (when are you next in the UK? )I bet that is great fun to operate, and I love the setting. Don't forget you could include the odd Eastern Region visitor via the Cambridge/Oxford line. Maybe a cross country Cambridge to Bristol or some sort of football special excursion

Strange, I've just been onto the thread using both my mobile phone and firefox, neither of which were signed in so I was just a guest and I could see pictures using both Have you tried hitting f5 to do a cache refresh?